Monthly Schedule

(Honors AP Calculus, Period C)

W 9/5/07

First day of school. What is a calculus? What is the calculus? What is mathematics?

 

Th 9/6/07

Quiz on the alphabet, including most of the lowercase Greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, theta, mu, pi, rho, sigma, phi, chi, psi, omega). Phi is pronounced “fee” by mathematicians. Basic knowledge of precalculus will also be quizzed.

 

F 9/7/07

HW due: Read p. xiii (“A Note to the Student”) and §1-2, pp. 6-10; write §1-2 #2, 6, 15, 17, 19, 21. Some reading notes are required every day, though they need not be extensive. (See the “HW guidelines” link.)

I would like to see at least one question for me written out in your reading notes. If you have several questions, I suggest jotting them in your reading notes so that you can get them answered efficiently.

Additional HW due: Check your e-mail. If you did not receive a thank-you from me, then I do not have your e-mail address, and I need an e-mail from you.

 

M 9/10/07

HW due:

1. Re-do Friday’s pop quiz, without calculator, and make sure it is 100% correct. Normally I would require you to work alone, with no unauthorized help. However, for this quiz, the rule is that you may use any resource that you wish to use, other than a calculator. Show your work for question 2.

2. Read §1-3. Reading notes are required, as always. Copy the green box at the top of p. 16 into your notes.

3. Write §1-3 #2, 3, 5, 6, 10.

 

T 9/11/07

HW due: Read §1-4; write §1-4 #2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 13; #12 is optional. Please use the Thingy to perform any computation involving 10 or more trapezoids. If you wish, you may also use the Thingy to check your work for #2 and #12.

Hint: In #12, the exact area of an ellipse is given by the formula , where the ri values denote semimajor and semiminor axes, i.e., the minimum and maximum radii of the ellipse.

 

W 9/12/07

HW due: Read §1-5; write green box on p. 27 and the so-called shortened version on p. 40; also write §1-5 #1-10 all and the supplementary questions below. (Include the sketches as part of your work.)

Note: We also have the concept of a “left-hand limit” and a “right-hand limit.” Of #1-10, which of them have a left-hand limit? a right-hand limit? What pattern do you notice regarding left-hand limits, right-hand limits, and two-sided limits?

 

Th 9/13/07

HW due: Read §§2-1 and 2-2; write §1-5 #12, §2-2 #1-6 all.

 

F 9/14/07

HW due: Read §§2-3 and 2-4; write §2-3 #13, 14, 24, §2-4 #21-42 mo3, 61, 70.

In class: Pop quiz.

 

M 9/17/07

HW due: Read §2-5; write §2-5 #1-5 all, 7, 8, 14.

 

T 9/18/07

No additional HW due. Make sure that all previously assigned problems are complete.

 

W 9/19/07

HW due: Read §§2-6, 3-2; write §2-6 #3, 11, 13, 14, §3-1 #1-5 all, §3-2 #6, 8, 16.

 

Th 9/20/07

HW due: Write §3-2 #19, 20. In your book, circle (in pencil) all the places where the word “limit” is being misused somewhat. Then do as many of the following review problems as time permits:

pp. 35-36 #T3-T7, pp. 75-76 #T6-T9, T11, T12.

 

F 9/21/07

Test (100 points) through §3-2, including all supplementary material discussed in class.

Here, as promised, is a proof that uses IVT. If you understand this, you may be overprepared for any problem dealing with IVT, since the proof is more detailed than anything I would expect you to produce on the spur of the moment. In some previous years, I have required students to know this proof or a simplified version of it, but you will not be required to know it for this test.

 

M 9/24/07

No additional HW due. Please enjoy your weekend.

 

T 9/25/07

HW due: Read §3-3; write §3-3 #1, 9, 10, and do a “buddy exchange” for a graphical derivative and antiderivative. In other words, you will exchange a sketch of a function with a classmate, and each of you will try (within reason) to challenge the other as you sketch both a derivative and an antiderivative for the given function. Make your function something that can be handled in a few minutes for the derivative and a few minutes for the antiderivative, not something as nasty as what we were doing last week.

 

W 9/26/07

HW due: Read §3-4 (this is all a review of material previously discussed); write the CFU and §3-4 #1-13 odd, 19, 23, 24, 30.

 

Th 9/27/07

HW due: Read §§3-5 and 3-6; write §3-5 #6, 7, 8.

 

F 9/28/07

HW due: Read §3-7; write §3-7 #3-12 all.

 

 

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